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Produce

Picked thirteen Mini Munch cucumbers from a couple of plants in the greenhouse and pulled a helping of Early Nantes carrots which have successfully escaped the carrot fly in the raised bed. Temperatures are soaring so the donkeys stayed in the shade of the stable before being let out onto the grass, the sheep choose to lie in half sun half shade and quietly pant. Wheelbarrow handles and the tops of the metal gates are too hot to handle, watering everything, the strawberry runners are rooting hopefully!

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Sheep

This card made me smile! Nice bike ride from Pamphill today, stayed off the muddiest tracks as my mountain bike had a flat tyre, used the hybrid with the rubbish brakes instead, which was fine. Raked the maple and ash leaves in oak paddock, they were beginning to smother the grass, put them on the compost heap which is lower already. Sawed up a few pallets for the woodburner, helps to have some fast burning wood to go with the oak and silver birch. Pulled the last of the carrots, a warm sunny day with light winds.

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Cycle Ride

To Sturminster Newton and back along the trailway, started in a rain shower and ended in sunshine with coffee and a sausage roll at the cafe. Pulled a few more of the Mediterranean Mix carrots from the raised bed, the yellow variety have produced the largest carrots, the small orange dumpy ones need the least preparation for cooking with hardly any gritty creases. Set up the electric fence so that when acorns fall they won’t be within reach of the donkeys; if they eat them the Gallic Acid and Tannic Acid toxins stays in their body and eventually cause liver and kidney failure. The tape ended up in a real tangle so must invest in a winding reel. Over 3000 acorns were removed from under this oak tree last year, it’ll be interesting to see how many fall this year.

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Produce!

Bite size carrot thinnings with lovely fresh green tops, and a few radishes, there would have been an inch long courgette in the picture as well but I ate it in the garden….! Participated in a Donkey Sanctuary webinar on donkeys today. Learnt some very interesting things; you need a shaping plan if you want to change their behaviour, so that you take only tiny small steps towards the final goal. Another hot day, will have to top up the water in the pond. Gardeners’ Delight tomatoes show signs of recovering in the greenhouse, the Outdoor Girl plants behind the greenhouse have their first flowers.

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Dorset milk

First pint (500ml) of local milk! Delivered for 50p a bottle from the farm a few miles away. On the windowsill potted-on cucumber plants Louise F1 planted 25th April.

Another cold night, tomato plants looking a bit sad. Mowed some of the buttercups in the paddock today, so tall and so many. Planted more runner bean plants and watered the carrots which are looking good – no rain for a few days now. A noisy Partridge wandered through the garden, usually a pair of them so was calling for company, I think.